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What did the word mosquito come from?
it is a Spanish word
What country did the word mosquito come from?
it is a Spanish word
Where did the word mosquito come from?
the word mosquito came from spanish meaning means small insect
Which country does the word mosquito come from?
There is a Latin word 'musca' meaning fly. This has passed into the Spanish language as mosquito and means 'little gnat'
Where does the word mosquito originate from?
The insect mosquito and their native language. Joking, mosquito means little fly in Spanish and Portuguese. The word evolved from the original Latin word musca for fly.
Is the word mosquito of Spanish origin?
Mosquito comes ultimately from the Latin word for 'fly', musca (this went back to an Indo-European base *mu-, probably imitative of the sound of humming, which also produced English midge (OE), and hence its derivative midget(19th c.) -- originally a 'tiny sand-fly'). Musca became Spanish mosca, whose diminutive form reached English as mosquito -- etymologically a 'small fly'. (The Italian descendant of musca, incidentally, is also mosca, and its diminutive, moschetto, was applied with black humour to the 'bolt of a crossbow'. From it English gets musket (16th c.).).See also midge, midget, musket
Is mosquito a spanish word?
yes it is but the meaning isn't really the same. Mosquito are small flies that are annoying but not the blood sucking type we have another word for those.
What is the Latin name for a mosquito?
The word for mosquito in Latin is "culex". The actual origin of the word comes from Spanish, which gives it the base "mosc-" and then the suffix "-ito" which means little.
What order of sects does a mosque belong to?
A mosque is an Islamic place of worship. A story which has been circulating suggests that the word mosque is synonymous with mosquito, mosque being the Spanish version of the word. Infact, the Spanish word for mosquito is mosquito. During the era of Muslim rule in Spain, the Spanish speaking community used the words mosquito (for mosquito, the insect) and mesquita (mosque, place of worship). Mosquitoes belong to the class: insecta, order: diptera, suborder: nematocera, infraorder: culicomorpha, superfamily: culicoidea and family: culicidae.
What does the Spanish word can mean in English?
dog
What does the Spanish word afuras mean?
afuras is not a spanish word.
What does the Spanish word gaka mean?
gaka is not a Spanish word
